Towards True Community Networking: Platforms and Networking

摘要

Much of the work presented at the Community Networking Workshop last year, and implied by the call for papers this year, seems to take as a given that community networks will be based on set-top-box based terminal equipment and cable television network infrastructure, In contrast, we believe that true community networking will only be achieved when the terminal in the home (or school, library, etc.) has the full power and flexibility of a general purpose computer and the underlying network provides an open "common bearer" service.